Friday, May 15, 2009

The series of tips on "how to get to" countries and places will soon reach 50 destinations.

To commemorate I will give away some goodies I have collected on my travels. To enter comment on this post and request a country or place for me to make as the 50th destination. The one I choose will get the goodies, so please make your request stand out. You can see which countries and places I have already given how to get to tips at the how to get to index.

I think you should consider Sweden becoming your 50th destination, it would be your first of the countries in the Nordic region and we are next to take over the chairman seat in the European union, so there will be a large number of people coming over to Sweden during the next couple of months.

May I suggest Israel? It's one country everybody should visit at least once. It's got natural beauty, it's packed with history and archaeology, and it's terrifically interesting. Not an easy place to live in, but wonderful to visit.

It's also not trivial to get to. Land crossing is possible (from Egypt and Jordan only) but tricky, whereas flights are quite limited to westward approach, if you see what I mean.

When you add an entry for Israel, do mention that in addition to TLV one can also fly to ETH.

Montenegro! It's the newest country in the world (at least it was when I visited, 2 summers ago), and you can easily get to it from Croatia or Bosnia, which are both worth visiting.

The sea town of Kotor is an easy drive from Dubrovnik and has an old fort high on the hill with a rock staircase good for a day climb. Inland, the limestone mountains look like something out of a Star Wars movie, it's shocking that they're not in movies.

Montenegro is one of the few places I've been that nobody else I know has ever heard of, let alone traveled to.

The "how to get to" series is about sharing information and tips on how to get to places cheaply and easily, rather than the things you can do and experience at each place.

Some countries and places are difficult and expensive to get to. As I intend going everywhere (so far I've been to over 100 countries), I've spent a lot of time learning how to get around the globe cheaply.

I'll continue to post about my own travel experiences separately, both in this blog and elsewhere.